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HANSARDWorking Practices (International Agreements Committee Report)My Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lady Hayter of Kentish Town on securing this debate and on the excellence of her introduction to it. I find it hard to see how anybody…19 May 2022HANSARDQueen’s SpeechMy Lords, I follow my noble friends Lady Donaghy, Lord Monks and Lord Haskel in regretting that the Government have again broken their 2019 election promise to introduce an…16 May 2022HANSARDEmployment BillMy Lords, in the unavoidable absence overseas of my noble friend Lord Woodley, and at his request, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in his name on the Order Paper.06 Apr 2022HANSARDEmployment BillMy noble friend Lord Woodley’s Question could not be more topical. Our employment laws failed utterly to protect the jobs, incomes and careers of 800 P&O seafarers, sacked without…06 Apr 2022HANSARDP&O FerriesThe noble Baroness is to be congratulated that a package of measures is to be introduced, late thought it may be, but will that package include the preservation of the right to…29 Mar 2022HANSARDP&O FerriesMy Lords, I am glad that Her Majesty’s Government are considering changes to the law to prevent this sort of outrage happening in the future. However, one thing is clear. Simply…23 Mar 2022HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022My Lords, I rise to make a short point. Noble Lords have set out the human cost of the cut to social security earlier in the year, the failure to uprate it and to maintain the…23 Mar 2022HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, in addition to the objections to Motion F that have already been made, I have particular one. I made it earlier in the proceedings on the Bill, and it is the one the…22 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, for the reasons explained by my noble friends Lord Collins and Lord Woodley, Clause 27 poses an unjustified, unnecessary but serious threat to trade unions. I say so for…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher. I too am a member of the Delegated Powers Committee and I support everything she said about the delegated…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, the Minister is now going to consider safeguards under Clause 25. I invite him to bear in mind that, in order to avert the danger under Clause 25(1)(9)(b) of “removing a…17 Mar 2022HANSARDTrade Union (Levy Payable to the Certification Officer) Regulations 2022My Lords, the Minister’s justification for the levy is that it is entirely normal for a regulator to be paid for by those whose businesses are subjected to regulation. That…07 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I support Amendments 98A, 98B and 98C. Among other things, the Bill is designed to facilitate the outsourcing to private contractors of NHS services currently carried…03 Mar 2022HANSARDStatus of Workers Bill [HL]That the Bill do now pass.28 Jan 2022HANSARDStatus of Workers Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his speech. I am grateful, too, for the other speeches made today and those which were made on Second Reading. I am particularly…28 Jan 2022HANSARDStatus of Workers Bill [HL]My Lords, this amendment is in my name and on a sheet marked HL Bill 14—TR(a). It is a technical amendment, so perhaps I can remind your Lordships of the context of the Bill and…28 Jan 2022HANSARDStatus of Workers Bill [HL]28 Jan 2022HANSARDSick PayTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development What should an effective sick pay system look…17 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, no one likes pickets. Even pickets do not like picketing. However, these clauses impinge on the right to picket, the right to picket is a fundamental aspect of the right…17 Jan 2022HANSARDSick PayMy Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for her Answer, but the fact is that nobody can live on £96.35 per week—the rate of statutory sick pay—and the lower earnings limit…17 Jan 2022